ABSTRACT
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a very common disease which prevalence is increasing and in a nearly future it will represent a socio-sanitary problem. This article s objective is to make a reflexion about the concept COPD, for the physicians contribute to their divulgation to the population and very specially to help to the tobacco desertion. Besides we want to reveal that the term has been well-finished due to the advance in the knowledge of aetiology, physiopathology, and radiology techniques. Although, we think that the acronym still includes entities with a very different features. We hope to clarify this concept in the future, establishing different phenotypes and mainly with molecular biology.
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Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/diagnosis , Forecasting , Humans , Phenotype , Prevalence , Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/epidemiology , Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/physiopathology , Terminology as TopicABSTRACT
La Enfermedad Pulmonar Obstructiva Crónica (EPOC) es una enfermedad muy frecuente, cuya prevalencia sigue aumentando y que en un futuro próximo supondrá un problema socio-sanitario. El propósito de este artículo es hacer una reflexión sobre el concepto EPOC, para contribuir por parte de los médicos a su divulgación a la población y muy concretamente al abandono del hábito tabáquico. Por otro lado también queremos hacer constar, que debido a los avances en el conocimiento etiológico, fisiopatológico, técnicas de imagen etc, el término se ha perfilado de forma muy positiva. No obstante creemos que el acrónimo todavía incluye entidades con perfiles muy diferentes. Esperemos que en el futuro, estableciendo distintos fenotipos y sobre todo con ayuda de la biología molecular podamos clarificar más este concepto
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a very common disease which prevalence is increasing and in a nearly future it will represent a socio-sanitary problem. This articles objective is to make are flexion about the concept COPD, for the physicians contribute to their divulgation to the population and very specially to help to the tobacco desertion. Besides we want to reveal that the term has been well-finished due to the advance in the knowledge of aetiology, physiopathology, andradiology techniques. Although, we think that the acronym still includes entities with a very different features. We hope to clarify this concept in the future, establishing different phenotypes and mainly with molecular biology
